I do not think it is the same root as prince but I could be mistaken. 'Zevel' would seem to denote wastage of any sort, used in the Modern Hebrew to describe compter spam (which is to say, digital disuse). דואר זבל(dọär zevel) means "spam-mail" in English.
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